Last night, at the premiere of Terrence Malick's new film To the Wonder, its star, Ben Affleck, revealed what's next on his agenda. "There's going to be a little Mr. Mom action," he said. The reason: "[Jennifer Garner] has a couple movies coming up…So, I'm preparing myself to take on some more of the burden [at home]."

The Oscar-winning actor and director planned a hiatus long before Argo, but stepped back into the ring for Malick: "I found him to be a real artist…someone I learned more from in the several months that we worked together than I had in [my] previous 20 years of acting in movies," he revealed.

Malick, who notoriously seeks the shadows over the limelight, stayed in Austin, Texas for the film's premiere. Yet, his industry fan base turned out in droves, including Moby, Wes Craven, and Gus Van Sant. The film's leads—Affleck, Rachel McAdams, and Olga Kurylenko—also made appearances.

Kurylenko described the thrill of working with the elusive director to ELLE.com. "Malick doesn't want his actors to know what they are doing next," she enthused. "There wasn't any script. He just told the story, or actually, rather described our characters to us verbally. So, we all had to rely on instincts. You couldn't rehearse or come up with what you were going to do in a scene. You had to constantly 'be.'"

The semi-autobiographical film doubles as an almost silent movie, but Kurylenko refutes the sentiment that Malick uses actors like models. The former Bond girl weighed in: "I did modeling. Acting has nothing to do with modeling. With modeling, there's no thought behind [it] when you sit in front of the camera. Yes, you kind of try to act, but there isn't the preparation that actors go through. You don't work months on becoming someone—doing all this research and physically transforming yourself."

With two hotly anticipated, yet drastically different films hitting the box office this Friday, Kurylenko, in Dior, compared her onscreen romantic struggle with Affleck to that with Oblivion's Tom Cruise. "Marina [my character in To The Wonder] chooses the wrong man. She chooses a man who cannot fulfill her and that's why she's suffering so much. Ben had a frustrating role to play, because he plays a man who does not know how to love. He can feel the feeling, but it's not enough. Love is not just a feeling. It's also work, respect, and growth."

Affleck gave a mandate for viewing: "It is important to anticipate something that is not a traditional Hollywood linear narrative…[and] to keep yourself open to that." With his iconic brand of charm and humor, he concluded, "That's a long way of saying that I have spoken more dialogue now than there is in this movie."